Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,435 5,612 7,150
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.94% 23.00% 19.15%
As % of the General category 33.94% 35.98% 32.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,799 3,786 4,979
10th Percentile £356 £355 £363
25th Percentile £434 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 86 224
10th Percentile £14.82 £18.86 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.59 £22.27 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £41.79 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.99% +54.77% -12.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £67.13 £38.12
90th Percentile £79.65 £77.95 £52.70
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £39.06 £27.00
% change year-on-year -39.00% +44.65% -16.28%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 21,908 15,598 21,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.80% 63.92% 58.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,766 10,146 14,117
10th Percentile £304 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,401 649 1,757
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.61 £15.39
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +2.68% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.18 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -21.43%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London 0 4,514 £575 -8.00% 1,485
North of England +3 1,082 £475 - 565
South East 0 646 £503 -4.74% 876
North West +5 580 £463 -0.54% 301
Midlands -1 578 £475 -5.00% 339
Yorkshire 0 456 £500 +2.30% 198
West Midlands 0 382 £490 -6.67% 195
South West -3 331 £525 +5.00% 271
East of England -2 200 £523 -5.00% 211
East Midlands 0 191 £450 +0.67% 143
North East -9 46 £488 +6.56% 78
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 289 (3.89%) Confluence
2 196 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 46 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 45 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 39 (0.52%) Apache
7 33 (0.44%) SAS
8 29 (0.39%) CMS
9 18 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 17 (0.23%) Appian
10 17 (0.23%) CICS
11 15 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.17%) Ethereum
12 13 (0.17%) HCL Notes
13 12 (0.16%) Camunda
14 11 (0.15%) Mendix
15 10 (0.13%) Hyperledger
16 8 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 8 (0.11%) TPMS
17 7 (0.094%) WebLogic
Applications
1 481 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 203 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 169 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 164 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
5 119 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 46 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.054%) Notion
9 4 (0.054%) Sketch
10 3 (0.040%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.040%) InVision
10 3 (0.040%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.027%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.027%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.013%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.013%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.013%) InDesign
12 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 266 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 99 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
3 88 (1.18%) NetSuite
4 87 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 81 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 65 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
7 54 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
8 51 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
9 50 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
10 49 (0.66%) SAP FI
11 38 (0.51%) SAP CO
12 35 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
12 35 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
13 33 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
14 32 (0.43%) Aladdin
15 30 (0.40%) Workday HCM
16 29 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
16 29 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
17 27 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
18 23 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,130 (15.20%) Azure
2 863 (11.61%) AWS
3 551 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 354 (4.76%) GCP
5 254 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 250 (3.36%) SaaS
7 242 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
8 212 (2.85%) GitHub
9 207 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
10 125 (1.68%) Entra ID
10 125 (1.68%) Serverless
11 114 (1.53%) Snowflake
12 111 (1.49%) OCI
13 105 (1.41%) Amazon S3
14 89 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 85 (1.14%) OpenShift
16 83 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
17 80 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
18 71 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 69 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 137 (1.84%) Firewall
2 97 (1.30%) Network Security
3 59 (0.79%) DNS
4 57 (0.77%) VPN
4 57 (0.77%) WAN
5 42 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 36 (0.48%) LAN
7 29 (0.39%) BGP
7 29 (0.39%) HTTP
8 25 (0.34%) OSPF
8 25 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 25 (0.34%) SSL
9 22 (0.30%) MPLS
9 22 (0.30%) Multicast
10 21 (0.28%) Cisco ASA
11 19 (0.26%) Internet
12 17 (0.23%) DHCP
12 17 (0.23%) VSAN
13 15 (0.20%) Wireless
14 14 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (6.44%) Power BI
2 203 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 191 (2.57%) SQL Server
4 153 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 145 (1.95%) Metadata
6 128 (1.72%) Tableau
7 104 (1.40%) Data Lake
8 102 (1.37%) Relational Database
9 86 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
10 83 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 68 (0.91%) Big Data
12 60 (0.81%) Oracle Database
13 55 (0.74%) BigQuery
14 45 (0.61%) MongoDB
15 42 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 40 (0.54%) Power Query
17 39 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
18 36 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
19 34 (0.46%) Delta Lake
20 31 (0.42%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 581 (7.81%) JIRA
2 187 (2.52%) Git
3 181 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 96 (1.29%) GitLab
5 55 (0.74%) Cucumber
5 55 (0.74%) JUnit
6 40 (0.54%) Selenium
7 34 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 27 (0.36%) Postman
9 21 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 20 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 20 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 19 (0.26%) MLflow
12 18 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 18 (0.24%) Maven
13 14 (0.19%) ERwin
13 14 (0.19%) Hudson
14 13 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
15 12 (0.16%) TeamCity
15 12 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 2,320 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 1,410 (18.96%) Banking
3 1,014 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 509 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 302 (4.06%) Financial Institution
6 275 (3.70%) Legal
7 271 (3.64%) Front Office
8 246 (3.31%) Investment Banking
9 222 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 211 (2.84%) Marketing
10 211 (2.84%) Retail
11 206 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
12 189 (2.54%) Manufacturing
13 172 (2.31%) Telecoms
14 168 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
15 122 (1.64%) Local Government
16 119 (1.60%) General Ledger
17 118 (1.59%) Law
18 112 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
19 104 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1,145 (15.40%) Analyst
2 778 (10.46%) Developer
3 768 (10.33%) Senior
4 746 (10.03%) Lead
5 677 (9.11%) Architect
6 614 (8.26%) Business Analyst
7 582 (7.83%) Project Manager
8 521 (7.01%) Consultant
9 268 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
10 235 (3.16%) Data Engineer
11 181 (2.43%) Financial Analyst
12 178 (2.39%) Senior Manager
13 167 (2.25%) Data Analyst
14 153 (2.06%) Finance Manager
15 150 (2.02%) Programme Manager
16 138 (1.86%) Java Developer
17 132 (1.78%) Accountant
18 127 (1.71%) Delivery Manager
19 116 (1.56%) Senior Analyst
20 112 (1.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (3.36%) Kafka
2 222 (2.99%) REST
3 201 (2.70%) .NET
4 184 (2.47%) React
5 157 (2.11%) Middleware
6 142 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
7 134 (1.80%) Spring
8 125 (1.68%) Spring Boot
9 115 (1.55%) RESTful
10 101 (1.36%) Node.js
11 91 (1.22%) AngularJS
12 84 (1.13%) PySpark
13 74 (1.00%) XML
14 72 (0.97%) OAuth
15 70 (0.94%) Redux
16 69 (0.93%) JSON
17 67 (0.90%) HTML
18 65 (0.87%) CSS
18 65 (0.87%) Pandas
19 56 (0.75%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 325 (4.37%) Onboarding
2 287 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 243 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 206 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 175 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 148 (1.99%) Derivative
7 146 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 140 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 139 (1.87%) Fixed Income
10 138 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 125 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
12 122 (1.64%) Data Centre
13 109 (1.47%) Equities
14 90 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
15 88 (1.18%) Public Cloud
16 86 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
17 84 (1.13%) Virtual Team
18 73 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
19 59 (0.79%) Mainframe
20 58 (0.78%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 259 (3.48%) Linux
2 242 (3.25%) Windows
3 129 (1.74%) Unix
4 62 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 24 (0.32%) Android
7 23 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 23 (0.31%) zOS
8 19 (0.26%) Solaris
9 17 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.20%) AIX
12 7 (0.094%) VMS
13 5 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.067%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.054%) MVS
14 4 (0.054%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.040%) HPUX
15 3 (0.040%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,554 (20.90%) Agile
2 1,475 (19.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,075 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
4 1,006 (13.53%) Migration
5 827 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 801 (10.77%) DevOps
7 796 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 751 (10.10%) Analytics
8 751 (10.10%) CI/CD
9 731 (9.83%) Project Management
10 724 (9.74%) ERP
11 708 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
12 668 (8.98%) AI
13 613 (8.24%) Decision-Making
14 591 (7.95%) Data Modelling
15 575 (7.73%) Roadmaps
16 564 (7.59%) Validation
17 555 (7.46%) User Acceptance Testing
18 548 (7.37%) Change Management
19 521 (7.01%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,086 (14.61%) SQL
2 880 (11.84%) Python
3 503 (6.77%) Java
4 294 (3.95%) C#
5 209 (2.81%) JavaScript
6 186 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 135 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 95 (1.28%) C++
9 67 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 62 (0.83%) Go
11 60 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 56 (0.75%) Bash
13 51 (0.69%) VBA
14 47 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 42 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 38 (0.51%) Scala
17 36 (0.48%) R
18 29 (0.39%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.35%) Bicep
20 23 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 657 (8.84%) Degree
2 652 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 459 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 189 (2.54%) PMP
5 173 (2.33%) ACCA
6 170 (2.29%) PMI Certification
7 162 (2.18%) CIMA
8 135 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 127 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 109 (1.47%) CISSP
11 103 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 79 (1.06%) DV Cleared
13 69 (0.93%) CISM
14 65 (0.87%) Azure Certification
15 47 (0.63%) AWS Certification
16 36 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 36 (0.48%) ISTQB
17 35 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
18 29 (0.39%) CBAP
19 26 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 415 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 363 (4.88%) QA
3 310 (4.17%) PMO
4 282 (3.79%) GDPR
5 138 (1.86%) NIST
6 119 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 101 (1.36%) SLA
8 83 (1.12%) IFRS
9 76 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 63 (0.85%) GRC
10 63 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 62 (0.83%) Accessibility
12 55 (0.74%) ISO 20022
13 41 (0.55%) GAAP
14 39 (0.52%) PSD2
15 34 (0.46%) NCSC
16 33 (0.44%) SEPA
17 26 (0.35%) MiFID
18 25 (0.34%) Basel III
19 23 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 277 (3.73%) Docker
2 128 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 54 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.44%) vSphere
5 23 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.17%) NFS
8 12 (0.16%) GPFS
9 10 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.094%) Hyper-V
11 5 (0.067%) RACF
12 4 (0.054%) ACF2
12 4 (0.054%) KVM
12 4 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.040%) GridGain
13 3 (0.040%) HDFS
13 3 (0.040%) ISA Server
13 3 (0.040%) SRDF
13 3 (0.040%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 349 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 215 (2.89%) Terraform
3 111 (1.49%) Ansible
4 72 (0.97%) Grafana
5 58 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 56 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 46 (0.62%) SCCM
8 30 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 21 (0.28%) vRealize
10 17 (0.23%) Control-M
10 17 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.19%) Argo
13 13 (0.17%) AirWatch
14 12 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 12 (0.16%) CASB
14 12 (0.16%) Puppet
15 11 (0.15%) Nessus
16 9 (0.12%) RSA Archer
16 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 994 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 662 (8.90%) SAP
3 642 (8.63%) Oracle
4 281 (3.78%) ServiceNow
5 198 (2.66%) Databricks
6 175 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 162 (2.18%) Google
8 133 (1.79%) Workday
9 109 (1.47%) Splunk
10 107 (1.44%) VMware
11 103 (1.39%) Cisco
12 88 (1.18%) IBM
13 78 (1.05%) Citrix
14 72 (0.97%) CyberArk
15 56 (0.75%) Sage
16 53 (0.71%) Informatica
17 51 (0.69%) Ariba
18 49 (0.66%) OpenAI
19 48 (0.65%) Bloomberg
20 47 (0.63%) Murex
3,212 Finance jobs in England